Abstract
The article proposes a discussion on race relations in the field of public security, having as a guideline a field research carried out in the State of Paraíba in Brazil, during the years 2019 and 2020. Here we problematize one of the analytical axes built throughout the study, called enmity policies. In it, besides making a discussion about whiteness and necropolitics, we point to the necessity of thinking about the existence of making people die, when markers of race and youth intersect in the field of public security. Supported by scholars such as Achille Mbembe, Michel Foucault, Maria Aparecida Silva Bento, Michel Misse, among others, we seek to problematize the multiple affluents that continue to construct death and life strategies in an unequal way in the Brazilian scenario.
Keywords:
whiteness; necropolitics; governmentality; Paraíba United For Peace